To properly clear; AC power must be applied (not necessarily turned on) to the system for about 10 seconds while the jumper is closed.

If you are not comfortable in performing the steps indicated by your motherboard's manual, please contact your motherboard manufacturer or system assembler for assistance.

It is important to keep the components on your motherboard in good working order, not just for playing games but for general system performance.

Confusingly, such Windows XP systems quote "HPET" connectivity in the device driver manager even though the Intel HPET device is not being used.

An HPET chip consists of a 64-bit up-counter (main counter) counting at a frequency of at least 10 MHz, and a set of (at least three, up to 256) comparators. The HPET is programmed via a memory mapped I/O window that is discoverable via Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI).Formerly referred to by Intel as a Multimedia Timer, Older operating systems that do not support a hardware HPET device can only use older timing facilities, such as the programmable interval timer (PIT) or the real-time clock (RTC).

Some common requests I see in regards to using the web browser control is the ability to set the HTML to display in the browser without writing it to a file and navigating to it, printing the contents of the browser, and other items related to manipulating it's contents. Setting the HTML without writing to a file Many times when the web browser control is used, the HTML content that the developer wishes to display will be written to a text/html file and then Navigate is used to navigate to the file, such as the following: The problem with that is, of course, that you need to write to a file. To accomplish this we need to get a reference to the browser's internal HTML document and manipulate it using the Document Object Model.… continue reading »